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Better not bigger capitalism

Ian Cheshire, CEO of B&Q Kingfisher, and client of mine, has just posted this very interesting online article about the [...]

only greed can save us?

Just read a tweet by someone who follows my tweets at citizenjules. The tweet pointed to a tweet by Solitaire [...]

Jules interviewed on Crosstalk TV

Follow this link to see Jules interviewed on Crosstalk about the end of hyper-consumerism.

Guardian blog on M&S

A recent Guardian blog by Jules at http://www.guardian.co.uk/sustainable-business/blog/consume-less-care-more We need to consume less and care more Businesses need to work [...]

Diplomat Magazine article

REDEFINING PROSPERITY In Bhutan they’ve scrapped GDP in favour of Gross Domestic Happiness.  Is it also time for the West [...]

Cameron’s Happiness Index is welcome news for progressives

By Jules Peck The government has announced a wellbeing review. What might this mean and why is this an important [...]

Common Cause and specsavers Lnyx spoof

Its interesting to see the chat going on around the specsavers advert which parodies the Lynx Greed is Good advertising. [...]

Quality of Life and redefining prosperity – the politics of beyond-growth

Prosperity lost? In conventional wisdom economic growth and higher incomes mean richer lives and improved quality of life. But, as [...]

The business implications of Dynamic Equilibrium economics

By Jules Peck and Professor Tim Jackson Prosperity lost? In conventional wisdom economic growth and higher incomes mean richer lives [...]

Commons trusts

One of the key aspects of a updated capitalism would seem to me to be the development of Commons Trusts [...]

Reports

The Long View

Arguments that growth and GDP-obsession do little to increase our wellbeing and are fast killing our planet are well rehearsed. [...]

Can Britain Feed Itself

On the 24th November 2009 a group of interested parties met at an Abundancy Partners organised breakfast Food Salon to [...]

Open letter to the Queen

The following letter was authored by Jules Peck and signed by a group of leading thinkers from the sustainability and [...]

Hope and Glory – green ventures UK

In this paper Jules and John attempt to survey what the role of high growth entrepreneurial businesses and VC investment [...]

Quality of Life report to David Cameron

The Quality of Life Policy Group was set up by David Cameron to recommend policies to the Shadow Cabinet. Our [...]

The Happy Planet Index

This index, which Jules helped develop with nef, examines which countries in the world deliver most long, happy lives with [...]

Let them Eat Cake – a report on advertising for WWF

Instead of preaching about the moral responsibility of business to further the goals of sustainability, this report, by Abundancy Partners’ [...]

Shaping the future – banks and sustainability

In this report Jules Peck examined and bench marked the lending policies of may of the world’s leading banks and [...]

Influencing power – the role of corporate lobbying in sustainability part II

This report by Jules Peck describes the results of a research project to review how 100 of the world’s largest [...]

Wellbeing and the environment – a report with nef

There are many ways in which the environment is crucial to our well-being. This report, by Abundancy Partners’ Jules Peck, [...]

News

Guardian Service Design Supplement – Banking (Quotes JG)

http://www.guardian.co.uk/service-design The big broken bank rebuild Since 2007, banks the world over have fallen from grace. Can designers help institutions [...]

Review of Co-opportunity on Treehugger

By Leonora Openheim, London (March 10th 2010) We’re excited to welcome British author and green marketing guru John Grant back to [...]

Review of Co-opportunity in Director Magazine

March 2010: Director Magazine The premise of this relentlessly optimistic book is both simple and daunting. If we all stopped [...]